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Show I THE NEW TAILORED SKIRT I UP TO DATE APRON MODEL. I rpHSRB has been a tendency for some months on the part of the tailoring craft to get away from the meaning- less draperies, slashes and sashes, anJ to establish feminine tailored wear on a safe and sane basis of effects nearer those of masculine tailored garments. gar-ments. The new suits sent out by tho best tailors are not mannish. They are far from It, being both dainty and graceful, grace-ful, but they keep to mannish forms. t?kirts are straight and narrow, and though drapery appears reasonably It la beginning now to take Its proper place In gowns of silken stuff, while the tailored walking skirt Is treated with stitched bands of braid, buttons and cleverly inserted tucks or skillfully applied plaits, suggesting mora width without actually giving it. Skirts are still very narrow nd Ujjf at tli foot, .md since the gone out of .hue vsidth has to be a" around the knees ao that ' without mincing or Htag,,r in- ,XJ The skirt , .-n In the illu'tratM of the .. :",,J '"Vr lafll klrt- It f-' '- n 'bdlB ilde and cloaca with three Ur I |